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The barren fig trees doom. Or, A brief discourse wherein is set forth the…
The barren fig trees doom. Or, A brief discourse wherein is set forth the woeful danger of all who abide unfruitful under Gospel privileges, and Gods husbandry. Being the substance of sixteen sermons preached on Christ's parable of the fig-tree. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Four lines from Matthew]The barren fig trees doom. Or, A brief discourse wherein is set forth the woful danger of all who abide unfruitful under Gospel priviledges, and Gods husbandry. Being the substance of sixteen sermons preached on Christ's parable of the fig-tree. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Four lines from Matthew]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Think what an Holy God you have to do withal. Never cheat your selves into a vain opinion, that because he is a merciful God, therefore you shall do well enough with him; how may thousands are there now ruing that fully in the place of Torments? you are in all these transactions concerned with a God who will not always be trifled with; and who will not suffer sinners to tread upon his honour, or cast contempt upon his glory, without calling of them to a severe account for it, and making them to feel▪ the smart of it: if therefore you will not serve him, he will honour himself upon you; but how little will that be to your comfort.
2. Think what an Holy God you have to do withal. Never cheat your selves into a vain opinion, that because he is a merciful God, therefore you shall do well enough with him; how may thousands are there now rueing that fully in the place of Torments? you are in all these transactions concerned with a God who will not always be trifled with; and who will not suffer sinners to tread upon his honour, or cast contempt upon his glory, without calling of them to a severe account for it, and making them to feel▪ the smart of it: if therefore you will not serve him, he will honour himself upon you; but how little will that be to your comfort.
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3. Affect your hearts by thinking how fearful this destruction must needs be. How dismal a thing it will be for you, after all this to fall into the hands of revenging justice. Think, if I bear no fruit, I must needs be destroyed at last, and will not all these things be then remembered against me? and how much better would it then have been, if I had been cut of by such a streak that fell upon me, and I was endangered by? had I not